Women are now taking. Its a matter of choice. I didnt choose to go flat, it chose me. Meet women who are breaking the silence and the rules when the comes to dealing with Breast Cancer. Instead of Reconstructive Surgery they are embracing their scars. I love my body. Its good enough. said, what it means to go flat. Lapook a string of cancer case near a polluted area, is that cause and effect or just a random occurrence. Turns out cancer clusters are hard to prove as anna worner. Is there something in the water in this small New Hampshire town. Would you even walk in that stream right now. With my boots on. Searching for the cause and separating the fact from the fear. Ahead on sunday morning. Lapook cheryl crow is a singer is a cancer message. Today sheryl crow is about to release a new role. In 2006. They are selling you you have Breast Cancer. Where all of a sudden everything is swirling. Ahead, the value of early techs. Lapook what can we do to hold cancer at bay. Martha teichner has food for thought. How many times have you had cancers . Five times. Along the way, he became a believer. Relationship with food to health and wellness. Your relationship to what you put in your grocery cart. Broccoli, carrot. Can you eat your way to a cancer free life . Later on sunday morning. Lapook all kind of promising cancer treatments. What do death stalker scorpions and great danes have in common . Theyre both helping cancer doctors find new ways of treatment. This will be the biggest improvement in cancer surgery maybe in 50 years. Thats saying a lot. New cancer treatments may be just on the horizon this sunday morning. Lapook those stories and more are just ahead. First we go to Kristine Johnson for the sunday morning headlines. Its march 12, 2017. The House Intelligence Committee has given the white house until tomorrow to offer evidence that former president Obama Wiretapped president trumps phones during the campaign. He made the charge in series of tweets. So far hes offered no proof. A california man is due in washington, d. C. Court monday. The 26yearold scaled a fence late friday night. President trump who was home called the intruder a, quote, troubled person. Vice president mike pence is on the road. Speaking in louisville, mr. Pence defended some of the machines host controversial proposals among they will Health Savings accounts and tax contracts credits. Finally in case you havent heard, we turn clocks forebarred one hour overnight. The start of Daylight Saving time, yes, it is saving, there is no s. We checked. Now to the weather. Spring may be around the corner but its colder than normal across the nation. Chicago could see its first inch of snow since december. A powerful noreaster may bring snow from the mid atlantic to the northeast as winter strikes back. Lapook to begin it looked like the legs of a my girlfriend loves artists. To be unique. And i need a conservative pair, cuz her parents hate artists get up to 40 off a second pair of glasses. Schedule your eye exam at pearlevision. Com. Lapook cancer has plagued humankind from our very beginning our timeline comes from jane pauley. Pauley when life began, so did cancer. Prehistoric animals have cancer. In humans, you can find signs of cancer in ancient specimens. Pauley physician and scientist Siddhartha Mukherjee calls cancer the em pore other of all maladies unhis prize winning history of the disease. Around 400 bchippocrates is says to have first gun it a name. Karkinos. What was it chosen . The word comes from crab, and there were something about tumors as they sent their fingers or fingerlings into the body. They look like the legs of a crab sort of dug underneath the sand. But the earliest preference can can found thousand years earlier. As for treatment, it says, there is none. In fact, its not until the arrival of anesthesia in the mid 1th century that surgery became a viable option. Who who have thought you could open up a human being. And sew that human being up again. It was amazing. Pauley how many labs are there around the world doing Cancer Research . I would say hundred. Pauley he conducts research and treats patients at new Yorks Columbia UniversityMedical Center says by the beginning of the 0th century Xray Technology would give rise to the very earliest form of radiation treatment. The use of toxic chemicals to kill cancer cells was called common therapy was a 1940 os. The dream was to invent a chemical that would kill the cancer cell but spare the normal cell. The problem is that cancers evolve out of normal cells. They are very close cousins. This woman has cancer. Pauley still given that potential therapies were as often as fearsome, even shame. When my mother was surviving cancer it was literally unspeakable. Yeah. Pauley what changed that . You couldnt shove it under the carpet any more. We saw our children dying from it. We saw our parents dying from it. It had to be a public word because otherwise we couldnt have a conversation. How can there be a war on something you cant nail what drinks us to 171, when president Richard Nixon did in fact declare war on cancer. I sent a message to the congress the first of this year which provide for a National Commitment for the conquest of cancer. The war on cancer grew out of a particular optimism around cancer. Remember that human beings had just walked on the moon. It was very doable. Pauley that was premature. Key was the realization that a patients genes could in effect be calling the shots. What tells us a cell to stop growing or start growing in the first place . The idea that sitting at the center of the puzzle was genes. You had a framework to understand cancer jane once researchers began to understand cancers mechanisms. More clues started to fall into place a. Human genome project completed in 200 led to development of still more treatment among them, individually targeted immunotherapy techniques. And where are we in the timeline or the arc . The problem remains how do you target, how do you kill the cancer cell while sparing normal cells, that was a puzzle in 19 1920. The puzzle in 1970. Pauley but there are more tools now . Many more tools. The immunotherapies are in earliest stages. The effort to unlock the secret within the human immune system is already offering new hope for patients for whom traditional treatments have fallen short. What happened to her seems like a miracle. Youre feeling how . Feeling great. He feel like i can could do anything. Back when she was just 9 shes was taken a hospital on long island where doctors gave her a diagnose she barely understood, leukemia . Am i going to die . Am i going to be able to do the stuff i did before . 98 of this form of cancer respond well to chemotherapy. But after four brutal rounds, her cancer was getting worse. It was very scary. A natural reaction to to think, why me . I was like, what did i do bad so that god could give me this punishment. Desperate and out of options shed that one last chance. She was enrolled in a Clinical Trial at memorial Sloan Kettering cancer. How is everybody . Good. Lapook after six weeks, the Pediatric Oncologist couldnt find a single leukemia cell. Not one. What did you think . I thought this worked. Lapook in a patient who basically ten years ago would have been told theres nothing we can do . Yes. Just a little puff foo from steroid because of a promising new frontier in the war on cancer. I am if you mu know therapy. To find and kill cancer cells. One of the Biggest Challenges in fighting cancer has been that cancer cells find ways of becoming invisible to the bodys defense and the immune system cant kill what it cant see. Doctors taught her immune system to see. They took billions of her white blood cells, cells that are normally are good at destroying invaders like bacteria, turn them into cancer killers. We can modify them, teach them how to fight cancer and in fuse them back into the patient. Like blood hods. Exactly. Go. Lapook traditional therapies like chemo and radiation often damage healthy tissue along with cancer cells. And better at sparing normal issue but there have been serious side effects even death. Once we knew it could work, weve been working around the clock. Lapook at the National Cancer institute. In 1984 he was the first doctor to cure a dying patient using her own immune system. These are immune cells. Lapook but also be the first to tell you that all these years later immunotherapy is tell in its infancy. Weve gotten to the point now where i think we understand why the patients who are successfully treated experience tumor regression. Based on that knowledge, i think were going to see dramatic progress in the next few years to come. Lapook but most patients dont have years to wait. Lungs are somewhat compromised. Yeah. Like the 29yearold who has a sarcoma. Normal lung would be black. These are all abnormal tumors. He has many hundred of different tumors. Lapook he has already been through two round of chemotherapy. He came to us as do all of our patients, having exhausted what modern medicine can offer. And our goal is not to practice todays medicine but to create the medicine of tomorrow. Lapook and that would be immunotherapy. Just as was done with ezzy, his white blood cells were taught to recognize. A month plater he gets back his juiced up cells, 0 million of them put into battle. Definitely feeling very hopeful. Lapook now hes waiting to see if those cells did their job. The highly personalized treatment is still only available in Clinical Trials. But theres another type of immunotherapy thats available now in hospitals across the country. Fad approved drugs called check point inhibitors are being used to fight certain types of cancers. With especially positive results for melanoma. While effective treatment for widespread cancer remains illusive, they are at least on the right path. Right now in the spectrum of cancer treatment, what percentage can be addressed by immunotherapy . If you look at all Cancer Patients, perhaps 10 can be helped by immunotherapy today. But its Getting Better every day. Lapook last tuesday he returned to the National Cancer institute for a first check up. I just have that comfort in terms of ive done everything i can. Good to see you. Just hoping that we get results that were seeking in this. Weve gone over the xrays very carefully. We compared them to the xrays that you had before we started the treatment. And there was, as you know, rapid growth of the tumor. But thats been completely arrested now. The current xrays are absolutely stable. No evidence of any growth. So thats good news. We want to see these tumors go away. Sometimes that takes time. Cancer patients deserve optimistic doctors. Lapook for now, patients like ezzy remain the exception. But doctors are hopeful and continue to explore the boundaries of this new frontier. One previously incurable patient at a time. Youre lying in bed at night thats going through your head . That the good thing is that im still alive. That i could live a normal life again. This is the main entrance. Lapook coming up, cancer clusters. But so we dont have tormin wad to get clean. Charmin ultra soft gets you clean without the wasteful wadding. It has comfort cushions you can see that are softer. And more absorbent, and you can use up to 4 times less. Enjoy the go with charmin. Wecagefree eggs. Ng and we care about amazing taste. Because at hellmanns, were on the side of food. Shake up your routine with a completely new way to clean. 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We decided to find a way to make the cancer light up so the surgeons could see it. The key is a scorpion venom synthetically reproduced. It sticks to cancer cells but not to normal cells. Combine that sticky molecule with florescent dye you have tumor paint. What problem does it solve . Sometimes its hard for surgeon to tell what is cancer what is normal. In the brain you cant take out a big chunk of normal. Tumor paint distinguishes the difference between brain cancer and normal brain in all of our experiments that weve done so far. Check out this image of a tumor. Did they get enough margin. I couldnt even tell but inject tumor paint. The tumor lights up. This is definitive. I can see why youre excited. Im thrilled. Youre turning nature up sight do you understand. Thats exactly what were doing. Sounds like signs fiction but it could be an fda approved reality as soon as 2019. I think this will be the biggest improvement in cancer surgery maybe in 50 years. 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Hes heading a task force investigating why several children in the region of New Hampshire developed rare cancer. The cancer that took the life of paul thomas 14yearold son, sam. Its something missing in your life. It will always be there . And paul and his life sin say, questions persist. In your head youre like, why are there three case that you can go off the top of your head, in the seacoast area . New hampshire says its a cancer cluster. Which the centers for Disease Control defines as greater than expected number of cancer case that occurs within a group of people in a Geographic Area over a period of time. And while that definition may be black and white, it turns out that almost Everything Else is anything but. State Health Departments get an average of a thousand reports of alleged clusters every year, but historically only a handful are ultimately recognized as true residential cancer clusters. One of those is the 1980s case of woburn, ms. Mass, a story told by the book and movie a civil action. More than 20 case of leukemia in children were linked to chemical contamination of the water supply. How hard is it to figure out if something really is a cancer cluster . Ive asked that before, extraordinarily difficult. Toms river, new jersey, is another. A section of niagara falls. The infamous love canal case in upstate new york. Investigators have to consider several factors including how often cancer occurred. How long it took to develop. Whether genetics might play a role. One that are thing, things. Cant be a coincidence. I think people have a hard time understanding that some time. There are random patterns and things can happen because of chance. When it comes to the seacoast san tore lust sneer. They have incredible challenge. This is the main entrance. So far dr. Sherman and others are focusing their questions on this old closed landfill where they say the military and others dumped toxic waste. New hampshire Officials Say they have found chemicals used to make commercial products. But they say theres no proof they are linked to the suspected seacoast cancer cluster. Every time we find something it generates a bunch more questions. Those responsible for the landfill deny theres any connection. But the thomases still hope for an answer. The cancer is out there. I think that has to be looked at. So that sams death is not in vein. Give extra. Get extra. My swthis s